Is Headless UI or Shoelace more popular?

Headless UI is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,125 use Headless UI and 599 use Shoelace.

Does Headless UI or Shoelace have higher-authority sites?

Headless UI sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Headless UI: 42, Shoelace: 29).

Is Headless UI or Shoelace growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Headless UI went from 0.30% to 0.24% of all tracked sites, while Shoelace went from 0.08% to 0.07%. Shoelace is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Headless UI and Shoelace?

5 websites in our catalog use both Headless UI and Shoelace.

Where does this Headless UI vs Shoelace data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Headless UI vs Shoelace — Site Stats Database

Headless UI vs Shoelace

A side-by-side comparison of two ui & css frameworks, based on the 204,967 UI Framework sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Headless UI	Shoelace
Websites	2,125	599
Market share	1.0%	0.29%
Share of top 10K sites	0.74%	0.10%

Rank	#11	#18

Median DR	42	29

Average DR	41	32

Median keywords	1,436	1,514

Median referring domains	760	475

Median domain age	12 yrs	15 yrs

Average domain age	13 yrs	16 yrs

Average monthly traffic	462,640	108,120

Combined monthly traffic	983,111,037	64,764,148

nfl.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords947,630
Referring Domains147,040
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)275,712,888
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHeadless UI
wise.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords740,245
Referring Domains55,017
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)191,512,897
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHeadless UI
deepl.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords257,270
Referring Domains56,098
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)104,514,269
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHeadless UI
eater.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,555,898
Referring Domains96,287
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)42,081,064
Traffic Trend
Technology
flightaware.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords627,477
Referring Domains33,829
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,184,080
Traffic Trend
Technology
dominos.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords193,164
Referring Domains21,426
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)26,430,242
Traffic Trend
Technology
bible.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords681,273
Referring Domains50,220
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)17,974,483
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHeadless UI
kitco.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords52,289
Referring Domains31,544
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,881,267
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHeadless UI
nhm.ac.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords210,512
Referring Domains54,627
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,233,377
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHeadless UI
savvycal.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords30,473
Referring Domains3,397
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,170,711
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
nfl.com	English	89	947,630	147,040	30 yrs	275,712,888		Headless UI

medicinenet.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords1,725,589
Referring Domains88,221
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,836,747
Traffic Trend
TechnologyShoelace
njtransit.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords105,827
Referring Domains10,699
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,491,877
Traffic Trend
Technology
jcrew.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords333,481
Referring Domains42,224
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,555,460
Traffic Trend
TechnologyShoelace
on.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords123,010
Referring Domains12,623
Domain Age33 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,916,548
Traffic Trend
TechnologyShoelace
stevemadden.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords132,313
Referring Domains13,848
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,770,511
Traffic Trend
Technology
dribbble.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords294,076
Referring Domains352,169
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,763,292
Traffic Trend
Technology
miniwebtool.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords157,726
Referring Domains5,437
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,045,403
Traffic Trend
Technology
bluemercury.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords121,257
Referring Domains7,914
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,911,843
Traffic Trend
Technology
theodysseyonline.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords420,804
Referring Domains28,114
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,743,813
Traffic Trend
Technology
milehighreport.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords21,468
Referring Domains13,608
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,154,522
Traffic Trend
Technology